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Taxis, traffic and directions: 39 everyday English phrases

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Taxis and lifts10

  1. you can pull over hereasks the driver to stop at the roadside here
  2. how long will it take?asks how much time the journey will need
  3. let me outasks to be allowed to get out
  4. the farethe money you pay for the ride
  5. we're heresays you have arrived where you were going
  6. cab ridea journey in a taxi
  7. jump inget into the car quickly
  8. the driverthe person driving the taxi
  9. the airportthe place where planes take off and land
  10. the addressthe street and number of the place you want

Driving and traffic19

  1. bumper to bumpercars so close in traffic they almost touch
  2. a traffic jamlots of cars stuck, moving very slowly or not at all
  3. there's been an accidentsays something bad like a crash has just happened
  4. rush hour trafficheavy traffic when people go to and from work
  5. take a shortcutgo a shorter, quicker way
  6. road ragesudden anger drivers feel at other drivers
  7. fill upput petrol in the car until the tank is full
  8. a flat tyrea tyre with no air in it
  9. break downa car or machine stops working
  10. the traffic washow busy the roads were on your journey
  11. there's no trafficthe roads are clear, not busy
  12. a car crashwhen a car hits something
  13. pull overstop the car at the side of the road
  14. a dead enda road or path that stops with no way through
  15. overtakedrive past a slower car in front
  16. the brakesthe part that slows and stops the car
  17. the wrong turnturning onto the wrong road and getting lost
  18. a petrol stationa place where you buy fuel for the car
  19. a finemoney you pay as a punishment, like for speeding

The commute4

  1. on my way inwhile you are travelling to work
  2. delayed bymade late by a cause or an amount of time
  3. mind the doorsbe careful, the train doors are closing
  4. drive to workgo to your job by car

Asking the way6

  1. excuse me, do you know wherea polite way to ask a stranger the way
  2. keep going straightkeep moving forward without turning
  3. next to thebeside a place, used to say where it is
  4. go down herewalk or drive along this street
  5. cross the roadwalk to the other side of the street
  6. on the cornerwhere two streets meet

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Part of Talk's everyday situations, 7 packs next to the Daily life in London set. We drafted 679 phrases people say in 18 everyday situations, from a queue and a taxi to a coffee shop and a walk. We left out the ones Talk's other packs already have. A phrase stays only if Talk's spoken videos say it with the same meaning. One review picked each moment, and a second tried to reject it. Each phrase comes with up to three moments. This pack holds the 39 for taxis, driving, traffic, the commute and directions.
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From Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Princeton WordNet, used under the WordNet licence. WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
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